How's yer surfing?

Nonexistent. But, see, I don't have ANY of the skills you have, so it's funny that I (once) had the skills you lack. See, funny?

That may be the first Biathalon cross post in the history of the Internet.

Hee!

I have always loved the idea of the biathalon. It's so practical and non-sporty.

In case there's anyone around who knows this, I have a trigonometry question:

I know cos^2 x + sin^2 x = 1, and therefore cos^2 x = 1 - sin^2 x but in one of the examples in my book they seem to have gone from (cos^2 x + 1) to sin^2 x in one step, and I'm confused. Shouldn't (cos^2 x + 1) = -sin^2 x? Or am I missing something?

it's funny that I (once) had the skills you lack. See, funny?

Only this year, only this year. What else can you do? I'm still compiling the 2006 list.

The percentage of cars with stick seems to still be dropping.

I wonder if the fully manual transmission might go away at some point with automatic-clutch manual transmissions starting to become more numerous. There's like five transmission choices now, manual, automatic-manual, automatic, CVT w/o torque converter, CVT w/ torque converter. I think there's another type on some French car, but I can't remember for sure.

That's crazy. I love the stick shift.

You know how TV & movies sometimes show someone waking a person up by throwing water in his/her face? I discovered this morning (when I managed to do it to myself) that it really works.

My Friend's mom used to keep a glass of water on her headboard (it was a bookcase-type thing). This was, until her cat started batting it over onto her face when she wanted to play. Every morning.

I have all the theory of the stick, therefore, and none of the reflexes.

When stuck in traffic, I often start pondering how utterly odd it is that I have instinctive reactions related to directing this giant metal box on wheels. I don't think about the funny dance with your feet for shifting, or how much I'm going to swerve with a 10 degree turn of the wheel at 10, 30 and 60 mph. I just know. (And have to jam my left foot under the seat when driving an auto.) Which is kinda cool and kinda aaiiieee humans and machines merging.

The other thing stuck in traffic makes me ponder is how utterly squishable we are and dude, I'm the soft filling in this metal creampuff and who ever thought squishables hurlting around at 50 mph inside a flimsy metal egg was a good idea?

Management companies doing the interest things makes sense, but do all, er, non-company landlords do it? You know, the kind where there's this one guy you have to call five times to fix your faucet and he doesn't speak English real well so you don't talk to him more than necessary?

See, I would think it should, because they are holding your money in escrow. However, as we so often learn on this board, Different Places Have Different Customs. So.

I've always gotten security + interest back.